Re-criminalizing cannabis is worse than 1930s ‘Reefer Madness’

By Miriam Boeri, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bentley University. A still from the 1936 propaganda film ‘Reefer Madness.’ Wikimedia Commons In the 1930s, parents across the U.S. were panicked. A new documentary, “Reefer Madness,” suggested that evil marijuana dealers lurked in public schools, waiting to entice their children into a life of crime and degeneracy.